Foreign assignments for IIM C profs

Updated on: Sunday, August 22, 2010

A few professors from IIM Calcutta received international assignments.

Prof. Bodhibrata Nag of the Operations Management Group of IIM Calcutta has been awarded the 2010-11 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship sponsored by the US Department of State's J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the United States-India Educational Foundation.

He will be conducting research on "Modelling USA Railroad Operation Strategies for Evaluation and Adaptation in the Indian context" at the Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in association with Prof. Katta Gopalakrishna Murty, Prof. Romesh Saigal and few major US railroads.

Prof. Nag has commenced the research work at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor on August 16. His first phase of engagement with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railways (at its Fort Worth, Texas HQ) is expected to commence soon. Prof. Nag has been given the position of Research Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He will be delivering a number of seminars during his stay at Ann Arbor- the first seminar on "OR opportunities in the railroad industry" (as part of UM IOE Seminar Series) is scheduled on November 17, 2010."

Professor Subrata Mitra of Operations Management group of IIM Calcutta awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Lecturer Fellowship at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, January – April/May 2011. He proposes to offer a course titled “Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Models and Cases” to MBA/PhD students at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University for the Spring semester of the academic year, 2010-11.

In an another development, Professor V K Unni of PPM Group of IIM Calcutta along with Professor Sudip Chaudhuri of Economics Group of IIM Calcutta have jointly received the project under a tentative title, Impact of Patents on Innovation: Economic and Legal Perspectives from India, Brazil, South Africa and Thailand

The project is by the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and is co-ordinated by Prof. Richard Nelson, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, it is supported by the Ford Foundation. It is an interdisciplinary study of the different aspects of patents in India, Brazil, South Africa and Thailand. The other members of the team are experts from Brazil, USA, South Africa, UK and Thailand.

Foreign assignments for IIM C profs

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